Shrubs, 2-3 m tall; branches terete, densely tomentulose to hirtellous becoming glabrescent. Leaves opposite; petiole 5-15 mm, densely tomentulose; blade drying papery, elliptic or elliptic-ovate, 9-15.5 × 2-6 cm, adaxially sparsely hispidulous to glabrous on lamina and sparsely to densely puberulent on principal veins, abaxially sparsely strigillose to hispidulous, base cuneate to acute, apex acute to acuminate; secondary veins 7-9 pairs; stipules generally persistent, pandurate, 5-7 × 3-4 mm, densely hirtellous, pilosulous, or strigillose, apically spreading, obtuse to rounded. Inflorescences paniculate, pyramidal in outline, 11-12 × 11-14 cm, branched to 2 or 3 orders, densely pilosulous to strigillose, pedunculate; peduncle 0.8-1.5 cm; bracts linear to narrowly lanceolate, 1-1.5 mm. Flowers sessile or subsessile. Calyx densely pilosulous to puberulent; hypanthium portion ellipsoid to turbinate, 0.8-1.2 mm; limb deeply lobed; lobes triangular, ca. 0.3 mm. Corolla white, funnelform, outside glabrous; tube 4-5 mm, inside glabrous or puberulent in throat; lobes ovate, 0.6-1 mm. Anthers elliptic, subsessile, ca. 0.8 mm, partially exserted. Stigma bilobed, ca. 0.4 mm. Capsules not seen.
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